Lunenburg

Lunenburg Bay

           Weather started off crappy today.  Rain during the night and very grey and foggy for most of the morning.  We decided to head in to Lunenburg.  It is one the oldest British settlements in Canada and the home to Bluenose II.  The town is gorgeous.  It is very steep, rising away from the ocean.  The old part of town is only 4 blocks deep but rising a few hundred feet.  Unfortunately Bluenose II was in dry dock.  They were debating whether to build a Bluenose III but opted to take Bluenose II apart and rebuild it.

going whale watching

            The town is big on whale watching and fishing tours so we decided to go whale and seal watching plus a harbor tour.  The boat gave us a tour of the harbor and the history behind a lot of the stuff.  The fog blew away and the sun came out.  After that we headed about 20 km out to sea and just stopped.  Sure enough the whales began to surface around us.  There were Minke whales.  They grow to about 30 feet.  One surfaced a couple of feet from Ryan and scared the heck out of Hannah.  She didn’t like the thought of a whale going under our boat.  Getting a picture or video of the whales is surprisingly hard.  You just never know when or where they will surface and by the time they do, you have missed the shot.  However, as luck would have it, Ryan managed to get some video(see below). The tour was 3 hours long so after that we just putzed around town. 

            After dinner we took the kids on the boardwalk in the park and then a walk along the beach where the kids found some dead crabs and jellyfish.  Fire, smores, Emily meltdown, bed.  

From Emily’s Journal

            Today we went whale watching.  And I saw a whale!  And after we went back to camp.